Unemployed Negativity

As I have noted elsewhere, Balibar includes Hegel in his list of transindividual thinkers, but as such he is something of an exception to...

Two quick capsule reviews/analyses: The Mission: Impossible films come closest to realizing the ideal of a film franchise. They are bare...

Before approaching the idea of “storytelling” that is at the center of Citton’s book, Mythocratie: Storytelling et Imaginaire de Gauche...

This is not intended as a review of Communization and its Discontents . If I were to write a review of the book it would simply be:...

"Horror consists in its always remaining the same—the persistence of 'pre-history'—but is realized as constantly different, un...

Any philosophical consideration of the politics of debt must perhaps begin with the fact that the entire rhetoric of debt, owing and pa...

I do not have much to say about this, but I had to share it far and wide. It is a clip from Finally Got the News , a film about the League...

One of the first texts that introduced me to the Italian political traditions of Operaismo and Autonomia was Italy: Autonomia, Post-Politica...

This is the video of a talk I gave at Utah Valley University in September. It was aimed at an audience of undergraduates, so it is very pe...

Signs I made for my local Occupation The potentials and contradictions of the OccupyWallStreet movement are far too many to enumerate...

Photo from Maximum RocknRoll's Facebook feed  Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s After the Future opens with a question, a question that de...

Let us begin with a few often repeated arguments about horror films. These are not so much theories, but things that "everyone say...

  The story of so-called primitive accumulation is well known to readers of Marx. This story was political economy’s way of understanding th...

Up until now I have avoided the trend of adults reading young adult fiction. I have never read a single Harry Potter book, but I have s...

Friday morning, as the local and national media went on a feeding frenzy of sorts over Hurricane Irene,  complete with radar maps and rain-...

Aliens have made it the news at least three times in the last week. This is fairly impressive considering the fact that there have been no...

I have not written anything about the riots/insurrection/looting in the UK for the simple reason that I do not know enough about the context...

The Hollywood tendency towards repetition, towards reproduction of the same, which reaches its culmination in recent reboots and remake...

It is possible to understand the interest in Marxist Spinozism, Spinozist Marxism, or, as Alberto Toscano once put it, Red Spinozism, as a ...

After two seasons  Treme still does not elicit the passion and dedication that can be found among fans of  The Wire. One common complaint ...